linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck discrepancy with debugfs stat ?

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Date:	Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:09:12 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Chris Hunter <chris.hunter@...e.edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsck discrepancy with debugfs stat ?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:59:50PM -0400, Chris Hunter wrote:
> Hi Theodore, Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Most of the e2fsck errors appear to have been uncommitted journal
> transactions. After stopping filesystem activity (hopefully to clear
> journal) a second dry-run e2fsck produced a much shorter list of errors.

Oh, if you trying to run e2fsck on a mounted file system ---- don't do
that.  The results will be very confusing.

> FYI, There was an entry "Links: 1  Blockcount: 8" reported by debugfs "stat"
> command is that same as i_links_count field ?

Yes.

						- Ted
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